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Jeff Trawick wrote:
>
> Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > It looks like there might be a problem with _un_graceful restarts on
> > threaded, namely that the whole server just vaporizes. It doesn't do a
> > clean shutdown because the pidfile is left behind, but it's gone
> > nevertheless. I've yet to find evidence of a segfault happening, but that
>
> Unlike the child/server processes, the parent process can't rely on
> the parent (itself) to write the log message for the segfault.
>
> Maybe sig_coredump() needs to call ap_log_error() iff called in the
> parent.
Something like that would clearly help.
But, just to be difficult, what if ap_log_error() seg faults? We don't
want recursive seg faults. Maybe some kind of "I'm trying to log a
parent seg fault" footprint in sig_coredump to stop the recursion?
hmmmm, I'll play with it
Greg